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What does defensively mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a defensive manner.
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If you are an introvert personality, your team will always play defensively.
He was drubbed defensively, allowing six points by Denver's Kenyon Martin in the first four minutes.
So mental health professionals will be under pressure to practise defensively and, if in doubt, to detain.
This tradition of saving up to wage war, either aggressively or defensively, has continued on into the modern world of corporate warfare.
Negative encounters with black bears usually are the result of bears reacting defensively rather than aggressively.
Surprised people tend to react emotionally and attacked people tend to react defensively, and you must fight down both urges.

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